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Air Products work with SEMATECH in developing <10 nm III-V semiconductor devices
SEMATECH has announced that Air Products has joined its Front End Processes (FEP) program, and will work with SEMATECH to assess advanced materials and technologies for the development of sub-10 nm node III-V devices. Below is the full release from SEMATECH on this subject: Continued scaling will
3 min readLitho-Services, LLC acquires assets and property of Simax Lithography B.V.
Litho-Services, LLC has announced that it has acquired assets and property of Simax Lithography B.V. The assets acquired in June 2013 includes over 4,000 parts, tooling and the continued Mesa cleanroom operation. “Our business model focuses on extending the life of 200mm and below lithography cu
2 min readDow Corning joins imec to help in researching 3D bonding of wafers
Silicone expert Dow Corning is joining with imec in 3D packaging of semiconductor wafers. Dow Corning to explore its temporary bonding CMOS-compatible solution for 3D Through-Silicon-Via (TSV) semiconductor packaging. The collaboration will aim to further expand the technology’s ability to achieve
3 min readToshiba to add 4th fab to make advanced NAND flash memory chips
The leading vendor of NAND flash memory chips, Toshiba is adding another cutting edge fab at its semiconductor chip manufacturing facility in Mie, Japan. The construction of this fab to start at the end of August this year and be completed in summer next year. Yokkaichi Operations already has thr
2 min readAjit Manocha of GLOBALFOUNDRIES receive SEMI EHS achievement award
SEMI has announced that Ajit Manocha, CEO of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, has been selected to receive the “SEMI Outstanding EHS Achievement Award — Inspired by Akira Inoue.” The Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Award is sponsored by SEMI and will be presented on July 9 at 9:00am during the SEMICON West 201
5 min readManganese based SFB as a replacement for Cu interconnect in 7nm nodes
Imec has announced it has developed a Manganese (Mn)-based self-formed barrier (SFB) process that significantly improves Resistance Capacitance (RC) performance, via resistance and reliability in advanced interconnects. It provides excellent adhesion, film conformality, intrinsic barrier property an
2 min readBOE Tech buying semiconductor equipment from Applied for making display panels
BOE Technology has ordered for advanced Gen 8.5 and Gen 5.5 flat-display-panel production equipment from Applied Materials for use in multiple facilities. Applied Materials is providing deposition equipment such as Applied PiVot PVD and PECVD systems supporting critical new technologies such as
2 min readSTATS ChipPAC celebrates on reaching 1000 granted patents by USPTO
STATS ChipPAC has announced reaching of 1000th patent milestone granted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). STATS ChipPAC said since the inception of its Intellectual Property (IP) program in 2000, STATS ChipPAC has filed more than 1,500 patents and published patent applications w
2 min readSynopsys' Aart de Geus on effect of the fin of the FET
In semiconductor chip design and manufacturing, the power of Electronic Design Automation software is only increasing. Its not just the traditional design which includes verification, synthesis, analysis, and such normal data-compute intensive tasks, software is even playing role in error/bug/fail
5 min readYole: Industrial machine vision market to grow at 15% CAGR to reach $2B in 2018
Yole Développement finds versatile detection, versatile inspection and compact 3D inspection to fuel most of the machine vision industrial market’s growth, driven by new low-end applications. Yole says from a non-industrial standpoint, all identified segments will sustain steady, high growth at a 15
4 min readGlobal semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending update
Latest semiconductor manufacturing equipment spending forecast for next 5 year by Gartner is as below: 2013: 5.5% decline from 2012 spending of $37.8 billion. 2014: Growth of 14.2% 2015: Growth of 10.1% 2016: fall by 3.5% 2017: Growth but no exact figure "Weak semiconductor market condition
4 min readFall in semiconductor inventory in Q1, as per IHS
IHS has seen a fall in inventory of semiconductor component in the first quarter of 2013 by hoping for consumer demand for electronic products in the second half of 2013. IHS finds Semiconductor makers’ inventory in the first quarter declined to $37.6 billion, down 4.6 percent from $38.4 billion in
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